In the Garden

July 25, 2011 by Missy Rakes 9 Comments

The blossom end rot was only on the first few of my tomatoes so now I have plenty to go around! I’ve given away several bags of them and today I made three pints of salsa:

And I still have this many left plus a dozen that will be ready to pick tomorrow:

Also, here are the only flowers that I managed to grow from seed:

I think zinnias are so beautiful!

I have to ask, what do you do with all your tomatoes? Can ’em? Give ’em away? Freeze ’em?

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The Atypical Housewife says

July 25, 2011 at 3:36 am

My tomatoes are still green, I'm impatiently, er, patiently waiting for them to ripen! In years past when we've had tons of tomatoes we have tons of BLT's, make salsa fresh, and canned, my mom almost always cans whole tomatoes as well. Once my are ready I plan on canning crushed tomatoes, making some tomato sauce, and then canning some salsa and spaghetti sauce!

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Kathy Felsted Usher says

July 25, 2011 at 10:29 am

In addition to canning, we cut tomatoes into thin slices and placed them on a drying rack until they were pretty little wagon wheels, almost stained glass looking. We packaged them away to use in recipes, either whole or crumbled. My husband would sneak one or two as a snack as well.

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Grace says

July 25, 2011 at 2:12 pm

Can them! I planted 54 tomato plants this year and almost all of them will go into jars.

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Jenn says

July 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm

I have a small garden so I don't usually get enough to can. I blanch and peel them, then freeze them whole in quart bags. They turn out great, and so delicious to have "fresh" tomatoes for sauce in the winter.
I'm jealous - I only have 1 tomato so far this year.
Visiting you from the barn hop!

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Sadie says

July 25, 2011 at 9:29 pm

I make sauce with the bulk of mine. Very easy sauce using all of the tomato. Salsa, plain canned tomatoes and currently I have a batch of cherry tomatoes in the dehydrator

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Patti says

July 27, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Wow! You've done a great job in your garden. I haven't had a great deal of luck growing tomatoes. Just enough to make a few jars of salsa. I did grow a lot of yellow squash and I made some pickles and froze some. I was able to give a pretty good bit to our church food pantry. Most of the food they get to give away is processed. Several other people gave vegetables as well. It was nice to be able to give some fresh vegetables to the folk who came in.

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Lynn says

July 28, 2011 at 4:13 am

I hope to slice up a few more of my tomatoes tomorrow. Not sure if I'll put them on my BLT or just eat them sliced. Your salsa looks yummy! :)

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Homeschool on the Croft says

August 15, 2011 at 7:49 pm

My tomatoes are STILL green, but I'd love to make salsa when they ripen. My question is: how do you make salsa that will keep... in a jar?

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June 5, 2012 at 2:36 pm

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